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HELEN SNEED
Nationality: USA
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A native Texan and resident of New York City, Helen Sneed has worked extensively in presidential and statewide elections as a political organizer and strategist for Democratic candidates. Her New York theatre positions include Director of Professional Rights, Dramatists Play Service; Senior Vice President, Music Theatre International; Executive Director, National Alliance for Musical Theatre; and Director, Special Projects, Walt Disney Theatricals. A member of the League of Professional Theatre Women and the Dramatists Guild, Helen is the co-author of a musical, SALLY BLANE, WORLD'S GREATEST GIRL DETECTIVE (Dramatists Play Service). In 2013, the world premiere of her play FIX ME, JESUS was produced off-Broadway by the Abington Theatre Company in New York City. It, too, is published and licensed by Dramatists Play Service. For over 20 years she has been a judge at FutureFest, the new play festival at the Dayton Playhouse. A passionate advocate for the mentally ill, Helen gives speeches on the rights and treatment of those who cannot speak for themselves. She is a graduate of Tulane University.
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Fix Me, Jesus Sally Blane, World's Greatest Girl DetectiveFix Me, Jesus
Synopsis:
In a Neiman Marcus changing room in Dallas, on the most important day of her life, Annabell Armstrong frantically searches for the perfect dress. A rising star in the Texas Democratic Party, Annabell is trapped in the Reagan eighties. Her political career, love affair, finances, and family relations are in crisis; and strong-minded characters from her past begin to appear from behind the changing room mirror. FIX ME, JESUS is a dark comedythe hilarious, timely, and poignant story of a woman who finds herself at the epicenter of history and politics, struggling for personal independence and social justice against the lifelong theft of her own power.
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Abington Theatre Company in New York City -
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Dramatists Play Service, Inc. NY (2015) 978-0-8222-3102-8
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dark comedy
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Male: 1 Female: 4 Other: 1g
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Synopsis:
Sally Blane, a pretty and indomitable seventeen-year-old, has solved mysteries all over the globe and has helped thousands of people in distress. early in this, her latest adventure, she discovers that her father, Lane Blane, is being held hostage by a coffee cartel in Latin America. With her omnipresent chaperone, Fricka Norse, and her plump chum, amaryllis White, Sally sets forth to save her Dad. Her boyfriend, Scotty Schuykill, wants her to stay home with him and do normal things like go to school. Sally can't resist another mystery, though, and takes off for foreign soil. aboard the S.S. Privilege, bound for Latin America, Sally is stalked by the menacing (though bumbling) Blister Owen. She also meets up with Consuelo and Lupe Wordsworth, two helpless waifs who are returning to the land of their birth to hunt for their inheritance, the Wordsworth Fortune. Sally vows to help them. Once in Latin America, she is introduced to Connie and Lulu's sinister aunt, Tia esmerelda, who seems to know more about the whereabouts of Sally's Father than she should. aided only by her flashlight and a magnifying glass, Sally is sideswiped by a sinister sedan, roughed up by a thug, rendered unconscious by a drug-soaked handkerchief, kidnapped, bopped on the head, poisoned by a mysterious devil doll, lured through the hazardous tropical rain forest, and pushed down an old stone well by her own father. and that's only act One. In act Two she finds time to become fluent in Spanish, learn the tango, discovers the missing fortune, save her father's life, and subvert a massive plot to take over the entire Southern Hemisphere. Just before the curtain, Sally is reconciled with Scotty and promises to go back to school. a mysterious gun shot rings out, and Sally charges off on her next case.
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written by Helen Sneed And Peter Webb, music And lyrics by David Levy And Leslie Eberhard
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Genre:
comedy Musical
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Male: 3 Female: 7 Other: -
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